Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
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| was built two wears ago at a cost OF S%ao-
600. was badly damaged by hre ana "aUer
the other morning.
IT is reported that twelve Indians were
| l,ilIed in the recent fight at the Crow
agency in Montana, but no bodies were
| found.
THE late Schuyler Colfax's old paper, the
| REGISTER. OF South Bend, Ind, is defunct-
PKoF. CUsHMAN is reported to have dis
covered a buried city in Southern Arizona
and exhumed 1900 skeletons.
JUDGE JOHN NJ. BERRY, OF the Supreme
Court of Minnesota. died at Minneapolis on
| the 9Th.
THE maltsters in the malt houses not con-
nected with breweries in Milwaukee, Wis,
have struck for increased wages
THE Fifth National Bank, OF st. Louis,
closed its doors on the 18th. One of the OH
GERS stated that depositors would be PAID
in full and stockholders might get seventy
five per cent Henry Overstoltz, formerly
mayor of the city, was president The
Rosenthal failure caused hedsy run on
the bank.
TROUBLE is reported in the Sacred Heart
Roman Catholic Church in Dayton, o., be
cause of the retirement by ArchDlshop
Elder of Father McDevitt-
THE propeller Osceola was reported
ashore in a thick fog on the 9TH, near Sand
Beach, Mich.
neapolls, Mimi, was partially destroyed py
fire recently. Loss, $4,000
DURING a friendly scuffle for revolver
in a Chicago saloon the other night, Charles
Boulder was fatally wounded by the acct
dental discharge of the weapon.
THE Lock-Stitch Fence Company of Joliet,
H., has been closed out on judgments ag-
gregating over $4,000, with big creditors
to hear from.
NJ ,oa;ao.oo 80 nooroa Rosnar+ Daor
Attica, O., was burned with all its contents
the other day. Rospert, who was man
seventy years of age, rushed into the burn
ing building TO save $500 in silver aud gold
which he had concealed in the house, and
was so horribly burned that he died =
few hours.
A. F. WHITTINGToN, cashier of the de-
funct Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany in st. Louis, has skipped with the
October receipts, amounting to 81 600.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, suffered severely on
the Sth by fire which destroyed Kahn &
Co.'s grocery and number of other stores,
dwellings and business houses.
SOME of the arch timbers in a tunnel
near Coshocton, O., fell the other morning,
killing one man and fatally wounding an
other
SCARLET fever is raging in and near
Westtield, Ill. The schools in some of the
districts have had to be closed indefinitely.
Not many deaths have been reported how
ever.
CAPTAIN ALFRED CUTTING, the renowned
Western boat-builder died at his residence
in Metropolis, ILL.,, recently of typho-mala-
rial fever. Captain Cutting was born in
England in 1922. He came to America with
his father in 1888, and was especially well
known in st. Louis.
THE saloons of Evansville, Ind, are to be
closed Sundays and legal holidays and
after eleven o'clock week nights.
UNKNOWN miscreants broke open
switch on the Michigan Central railway
near Hammond, Ind, the other night and
freight which came first was wrecked and
$4,000 damage done.
THE main building of the soldiers home
at Davenport, Iowa, was destroyed by fire
the other morning, causing $4,000 loss.
Cause, stroke of lightning. No one was
hurt.
Discoveries have been made showing
that the Fifth National Bank, of ST. Louis,
which lately suspended, was ruined by the
cashier, G. c Creclius. He was arrested.
THE total vote cast in Cook County (Chi-
cago) for Judge of the Superior Court was
63, 342, of which Joseph E. Gary received
56OS4 and Captain Black $685. making
Gary's majority 1885. Gary was the
Judge who tried the Anarchists, Black de-
Tended them. Gary received the nomna-
ton of tue Republicans and the indorse-
ment of the Democrats and the United
Labor men, except the Soclalistlc wing of
the latter.
Hon. WILLIAM r. MORRISON has declined
to receive pension of 500 a year to which
he is entitled as a survivor of the Mexican
war.
JOHN E. WALLACE, agent for the Huron
Stone Company was arrested recently at
Chicago for opening mail belonging to the
Breen Stone Company. He was held in
81, COO bonds by Commissioner Hoyne.
LOUIS LINGG, the youngest of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, committed
suicide in jail on the 10th, the day previous
to that set for his execution, by exploding
Illuminating cap in his mouth. He coolly
held it in his teeth and lit it with a candle
in the presence of the guard set to watch
him. The explosion blew his jaw and
tongue away and caused his death in about
five hours after his desperate act.
Governor Oglesby was informed of
Lingg's death, and in the evening
made known his decision respecting the
other doomed men. Fielden aud Schwab
had their sentences committed TO imprison-
ment for life, while the others-Spies, Par
| sons, Fischer and Engel-were ordered for
| execution the following day.
THE SOUTH.
noted bandits, have been captured in Mex
| ico near Rio Grande City, Tex, and or
| dered to be shot.